Improvement in packing-boxes



H. N. HART.

Packing-Box.

N0. 166,774. Patented Aug .17,1875.

N. PETERS, PKOTu-UTNOGRAPNEx, WASHINGTON, p. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

HARRISON N. HART, OF SANDWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKING -B OXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,774, dated August17, 1875; application filed August 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON N. HART, of Sandwich, in the county ofCarroll, State of New Hampshire, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Packing- Boxes, of which the following is a descriptionsufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which my invention appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan of my improvedpacking-box, with the cover removed; and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinalsection, with the cover 011.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawing,

My invention relates to that class of packing-boxes which are dividedinto compartments; and consists of a novel construction and arrangementof the parts, as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, by which anarticle of this character is produced, possessing superior advantages inmany respects over those in common use for like purposes.

When lamp-chimneys and similar articles of glassware are packed in theordinary manner great loss is experienced from breakage, on account ofthe peculiar form of the chimney and the difficulty of preventing thepacking from shifting in the casks or boxes. The labor and expense ofpacking and unpacking chimneys when straw is used is also very great,and the work disagreeable.

My invention is designed to .obviate these difficulties and objections,and to that end I make use of a box or case divided into sections, eachsection consisting of a series of triangular compartments, arranged ashereinafter set forth, the base or widest part of one compartment, andthe apex or narrowest part of the next adjoining compartment beingformed by the same partition, and so on through the series.

In the drawing, A is the box, which may consist of any ordinarypacking-case of suitable dimensions. 0n the bottom of the box I vplacethe shallow risers or lifts a b c, and on the risers the flooring J,composed of strong pasteboard. On the flooring I construct a series ofcompartments of peculiar formand arrangement, best seen in Fig. 1, inwhich B O D are strips of stout pasteboard, corresponding in length withthe flooring J, and in width with the diameter of the chimney to bepacked. These strips are set up on edge or arranged vertically, asshown, the strips 0 I) being arranged near the sides of the box, and thestrip B in the center. Halved into the strips B O D, and supportedthereby, are the partitions a a, consisting of strips of pasteboardcorresponding in width with the strips B O D, and arranged to form thetriangular compartments E F, as shown. On top of these compartments Iplace another flooring or covering, H, and on this ,flooring anotherseries of compartments of like form with those in the bottom of the box,and so on until the box is filled, when it is closed by the cover G. 1

The triangular compartments E F arev alternated in shape, as shown inFig. 1, so as to allow the position of the chimneys, in packing, to bealternated, whereby I secure the most economical and safest packing ofthe goods for transportation. Each compartment is adapted to receive onechimney.

By this method of construction the space in the box is greatlyeconomized, the chimneys being packed, alternately, with a top and basenext the central partition B, as shown by the dotted lines x x. Thelabor of packing and unpacking-is also greatly reduced,

and the liability to breakage almost entirelyobviated, the chimney beingheld firmly in position by the walls of the compartment in which it isplaced.

I am aware that a packing-box has been used having uniform squarecompartments formed by pasteboard partitions, and I therefore do notclaim the same broadly, my invention being essentially differenttherefrom. I am also aware that egg-carriers have been constructed withtriangular compartments; but these carriers could not be made to answerthe purpose of packing-boxes for lampohimneys, for which purpose mydevice is specially designed; nor would my invention substantially asand for the purpose speci answer the purpose of an egg-carrier. fled;

What I claim is- HARRISON N. HART. [L. S.] A packing-box forlamp-chimneys, having a series of triangular compartments, E F,Witnesses: constructed and arranged in alternate order G. O. FELLOWS,between the dividingwalls 0, B, and D, ELISHA MARSTON.

